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High profile SNP MPs lost their seats in the election, including Kirsten Oswald, Tommy Sheppard, Alison Thewliss and Joanna Cherry. [125] On 7 July 2024, newly elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer travelled to Edinburgh on the first stop of his tour of the four countries of the United Kingdom and met with Swinney at the ...
SNP Spokesperson for Home Affairs: 2015: 2015 Martin Rhodes: Labour: Midlothian: Owen Thompson [334] Chief Whip of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons: 2019: 2019 Kirsty McNeill: Labour: Gordon and Buchan [n 58] Richard Thomson [334] SNP Spokesperson for Northern Ireland, Wales, Business and Trade: 2019: 2019 Harriet Cross ...
Ferrier narrowly lost the seat in the June 2017 election to Killen by 265 votes. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] She stood as a candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election . [ 12 ] She was again selected as the SNP candidate for the seat in the 2019 general election , where she defeated Killen on a 5-per-cent swing and gained a majority of 5,240 votes, or ...
Ian Blackford (born 14 May 1961) is a Scottish politician and investment banker who served as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons from 2017 to 2022. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross, Skye and Lochaber from 2015 to 2024 .
[6] [7] In May 2015, the SNP made him their Spokesperson on Europe at Westminster. [8] In July he was appointed as a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, [9] the first SNP candidate to win the seat. At the 2017 general election, Gethins was narrowly re-elected as the MP for North East Fife. He received 13,743 votes ...
Labour lost the 54 as said but gained one, Putney, in direct reply, and lost 6 to the SNP and lost 1 to Speaker, giving them a net loss of 60 seats. The SNP gained 7 from the Conservatives, 6 from Labour, and 1 from the Lib Dems, and lost 1 to the Lib Dems, making a SNP net gain of 13 seats. The Lib Dems gained 3 seats (2 Conservative and 1 SNP ...
Alyn Edward Smith (born 15 September 1973) is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirling from 2019 until 2024 when he unsuccessfully stood for the Stirling and Strathallan seat.
Hannah Mary Kennedy-Bardell (born 1 June 1983) is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 2015 until 2024. [1] [2] [3] A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she served as its spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2018 to 2019.